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Palm Coast staff: hearings will be livestreamed; new commercial-vehicle rules allow one work vehicle per residence
Summary
Code supervisor Louis Mendez told the board that code hearings will be live streamed going forward and summarized a newly approved commercial-vehicle ordinance that allows one commercial vehicle per residence with specific size and equipment limits; trailers and oversized vehicles remain disallowed.
Louis Mendez, the City of Palm Coast code supervisor, told the code enforcement board on Dec. 3 that all code hearings must now be live streamed and briefed members on a recently approved commercial-vehicle ordinance that he said will change enforcement practice.
“...we are live streamed. Every hearing, including code, that has to be live streamed from now on,” Mendez said, announcing the shift to live-streamed hearings.
Mendez summarized the ordinance the board will now enforce: it allows one commercial vehicle per residence (in a duplex, each dwelling unit may have one commercial vehicle), permits certain work vans and lettering, sets maximum size limits referenced by staff (roughly 20 feet in length and around 9 feet in height), allows approximately 2 feet of equipment to extend above or beyond the vehicle in some cases, and expressly disallows trailers and certain oversized vehicles. He told the board that cases now meeting the new standard have been withdrawn and that City Council will review the ordinance’s impact in six months.
Board members sought clarification about how notices and warnings escalate into hearings; Mendez said staff typically uses notices as education the first one or two times and brings properties to the board on the third or fourth occurrence if noncompliance continues. He said staff will circulate the ordinance text and the council packet that was approved on adoption to help board members apply the new rules consistently.
What this means for residents Residents who rely on a work vehicle should review the written guidelines staff will provide, confirm size and equipment limits, and, where applicable, move trailers or oversized equipment to storage to remain compliant. Staff reiterated that existing cases that fall within the allowed vehicle parameters will be withdrawn from the hearing agenda.
Speakers quoted in this report are drawn from the meeting record: Louis Mendez (code supervisor).
